№18, (2006)

In 2002 Ukraine announced its policy of Euro-Atlantic integration, with NATO membership as the ultimate goal. During the recent parliamentary elections in Ukraine, election frontrunners avoided the...

(Continued from no. 17)5. INDEPENDENT UKRAINE RULED BY THE SOVIET-COMMUNIST PARTY NOMENKLATURA Earlier I mentioned that the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet system were different phenomena, but in...

June 5 marks the Journalists’ Day in Ukraine, as per presidential edict signed in May 1994 and timed to coincide with the date of the Ukrainian Journalists’ Union’s accession to the International...

Fabio Fabbri, the Italian Ambassador to Ukraine, gave a reception in Kyiv to celebrate Republic Day, Italy’s national holiday. The ceremony was held at the National Philharmonic, with carabineers...

Dietmar Studemann, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine, has held this post for almost six years. Even though his diplomatic mission will end...

Did the Ukrainian government react adequately to the incident involving an American merchant ship that was blocked in the port of Feodosia? Who stands to gain from this kind of provocation? The Day...

June 6 (Journalists Day in Ukraine) 2000: During US President Bill Clinton’s visit to Ukraine, his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma announces the date for shutting down the Chornobyl nuclear power...

Kyiv’s first children’s charity fair opened on May 31 at Ukraine House. Organized by the Publishers’ Forum, the fair is not sponsored either by the state or the private sector. According to the forum...

A musical fountain named Thumbelina was unveiled on June 1, International Children’s Day, next to the Kyiv Puppet Theater at 1a Hrushevsky Street. The bronze heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s...

On June 2 the Crimean parliament held an unscheduled session to form a new government for this autonomous republic. Seventy-five out of 93 registered deputies voted to install Viktor Plakyda, a...

“This project is based on 1984 technical specifications, and there seems to be no end to it. We shall see what happens next. There will be a special announcement on this matter,” Russian Defense...

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kyiv held a soiree commemorating Ambassador’s Viktor Chernomyrdin’s fifth anniversary at his post. The Russian diplomat decided to stage the celebration as a...

What kind of a coalition agreement will be formed in Ukraine and most importantly, how will the most “sensitive” issues be formulated in it? These questions probably have far more weight than the...

About 10 years ago I was very surprised by what a friend of mine told me about the United States: there are a lot of street people, who behave aggressively, and if a smelly tramp sits down next to...

The language of culture can quell the current feud between Ukraine and Russia: this recipe for improving Ukrainian-Russian relations comes from Valentyna Sliusarchuk, director of the Library of...